Abrego Garcia, who had fled El Salvador as a teenager to escape gang violence, was expelled and sent back to his native land even though he had won a court order six years earlier barring his removal.

The wife of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who the Trump administration admitted to mistakenly deporting to El Salvador, said she fears for his life in the infamous maximum-security prison where he's being held alongside some of the country's most dangerous criminals.

HYATTSVILLE, Md. (AP) — The wife of a Maryland man who was mistakenly deported to a notorious prison in El Salvador joined dozens of supporters at a rally before a court hearing Friday, where his lawyers will ask a federal judge to order the Trump administration to return him to the U.S.